As job seekers, we have a tendency to focus on the interviews which lead up to the job offer (informational interviews, job interviews), but think little about what comes beyond. One of the themes of this blog is to consider shifting our perspective such that we are putting ourselves into the day-to-day work mindset which …
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One important aspect to pay attention to in achieving the working mindset are the timescales of your thinking. Student life is lived in future tense on several timescales. There is the immediate future (what assignments and readings are due this week?) and then there is a slightly larger scale (what classes will I take next …
As analysts of language, we are very aware that any text can serve as a portrait of identity, and there are few documents more critical in the presentation of selves over the course of our lives than our resumes (CVs). But how can we as sociolinguists bring what we know about language and how it …
Hi, I am Anna Marie Trester. I am the Assistant Director of the MA in Language and Communication (MLC) at Georgetown University in the Department of Linguistics. My work here involves raising awareness of the usefulness of Sociolinguistics in today’s workplace. In my research (on improvisational theater, peace vigils, and tourism in Costa Rica), professional …
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